Mitten.



PATENTED AUG.15, 1905.

R. B. MOMASTERS.

MITTBN. APPLIUATION FILED DEG. 2.1904.

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R. B, MGMASTERS,

MITTEN.

APPLICATION :FILED DEG, 9,1904.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 15, 1905.

Application filed December 2, 1904. Serial No. 235,236.

letters of reference marked thereon, which` form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in mittens; and the object of the invention is to produce an article of this character which will be of a substantial nature and one which is practically seamless at the points which receive the greatest wear or service.

The invention consists, further, in various details ol' construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and then specilically defined in the appended claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view of a blank of leather or other suitable material from which the mitten is made. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the lirst step in the folding of the end `flaps of the blank. Eig. 3 is a similar View showing the end and side 'flaps folded and stitched, forming the back of the mitten. Eig. 4t is a plan View of a blank of modified formv of mitten. Eig. 5 is a detail View showing the end flaps folded in; and Eig. 6 is a detail view showing the side and covering `flaps for the ends folded and stitched, the illustrations of the folded sections being the rear or back parts of the mitten.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a blank of leather' or other suitable material having flaps B, (l, D, E, and E radiating from one end of the blank. Each of said iiaps is tapered, as illustrated, and AZ designates longitudinal side `flaps, which are adapted to be bent along' the lines X X upon themselves, and each of said flaps is substantially one-half the width of the portion A, which forms the palm of the mitten., whereby when they are folded with the edge of one upon the other they may be stitched together. In stitching the blank to form the mitten the radial flaps are all bent in along' the dotted line indicated by letters K, in which folded relation the adjacent longitul dinal edges of the radial `flaps will be in contact with each other and stitched, said stitching being' illustrated in the drawings by letter N. After the various radial flaps have been stitched from the dotted line to the free ends thereof along their adjacent longitudinal edges the flaps A2 are folded in one upon the other, with their forward ends overlapping the-stitched endsof said radial ilaps, and said side flaps are stitched along their longitudinal overlapping edges, as at M. By this construction it will be observed that a practically seamless mitten is produced at the point where strain and wear come upon the mitten.

1n Eig. 4 of the drawings l have shown a slight modification in the form of my improved blank for mittens, in which the body portion A is adapted to form the palm of the mitten and two side liaps AAL are adapted to be folded upon the dotted line (t, so that the inner longitudinal edges of said side flaps will overlap and receive a stitching a in the same manner as illustrated in Figs. l to 3, inclusive. In the modified forms the radial [laps E', C', and D are folded in, so that their adjacent edges will be in contact with each other, and an additional semicireular flap O, which is integral with the end of the blank, is folded over the inturned radial and side Vflaps and stitched along' the dotted line designated by letter Q, thereby forming a seamless end to the mitten. In order to further reinforce the inturned flaps, I apply staples P, which arc passed through the flap O and clenched to the inturned radial liaps as well as to the side flaps, thus more securely holding' the parts in their folded relations than would be the case without the staples.

While l have shown a particular construction of mitten illustrating my invention, it will be understood that l may vary the same as to details of construction, il" desired, without in any way departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A mitten made of a single blank having radial iiaps at one end with inclined edges designed to be folded in upon the blank and stitched together, side flaps adapted to be folded to form the back of the mitten, with the meeting edges of said side 'flaps overlapping' and designed to be stitched together and to said folded radial flaps, as set forth.

2. A mitten made of a single blank of materiel having radial and side flaps, the latter dial faps and designed to be stitched over the adapted to be folded to form the beek of the f ends of the side aps, thereby producing an mitten, the meeting edges of said side fiaps i essentially seamless mitten at the points where overlapping and designed to be stitched toi the greatest Wear comes upon the mitten, es gether, seid radial liaps adapted to be folded l set forth. upon the inner face of the palm of the mitten i In testimony whereof I hereunto afX my and stitched together, a semioiroular flap at signature in presence of two Witnesses.

the end of the palm portion of the mitten de- ROBERT B. MCMASTERS. signed to fold over said inturned radial flaps l/Vitnesses: and With the outer marginal edge of said end H` H. TURNER,

Hap even with the folded portions of the rzt- THos. J. HILSINGER. 

